When squealers squeal, the rabbits run down their holes…
Longtime Democratic incumbent Rep. Nita Lowey’s Republican challenger this fall is a Christian conservative author and activist whose writings have frowned on inter-racial marriage and movies like “Save the Last Dance,” touted the benefits of studies linking race to IQ and said parents need to teach their kids “appropriate ethnic boundaries” for marriage and socializing.
Jim Russell [homepage], who’s challenging Lowey in a repeat after trying to take her on in 2008, made the statements in an essay called “The Western Contribution to World History,” which was published in a 2001 – 2002 edition of the Occidental Quarterly, and had also been featured on infamous former politician and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke’s website. It’s since been taken down from there.But it’s still available in the back issues of the Occidental Quarterly, a far-right magazine that the civil rights-focused Southern Poverty Law Center dubbed a “racist” publication whose “editors and advisory board members have constituted a ‘Who’s Who’ of the radical right, and its regular publication of extremists’ articles has made it a favorite among academic racists in America.”
UPDATE: GOP lawyer: Russell can’t be dropped from ballot line